Preserving biodiversity has to be made a paramount concern i n management of today’s highly human-modified landscapes. Maintaining such diversity requires understanding of landscape fragmentation patterns and habitat connectivity. Therefore the aim of this session is to indentify current trends in spatial explicitly analysis and modeling of landscape fragmentation and connectivity. In particular, we expect presentations with both technical and applied focus, covering such broad topics as:

modern techniques and methods use in spatial pattern analysis (e.g. new indices use to fragmentation and connectivity assessment) and/or spatially explicit modeling (e.g. habitat suitability modeling),

assessment of fragmentation effects on wildlife habitats of existing or future planned infrastructure,

This one-day workshop will cover concepts and applications of recently developed methodologies, metrics and tools for the analysis of landscape fragmentation and connectivity (based on remote sensing and GIS). The workshop is organized along with the thematic session “New perspectives in landscape fragmentation and connectivity assessment”, and is part of the project “Integration of categorical- and gradient-based approaches in landscape fragmentation and connectivity modelling using GIS&T” founded by the Polish National Science Centre.

Program warsztatu

Godz.

Temat

Prowadzący

9:00 - 10:45

The state of the art in fragmentation and connectivity assessment on landscape and habitat level (discussion)

Katarzyna Ostapowicz
Peter Vogt
Elżbieta Ziółkowska

10:45 - 11:15

Przerwa kawowa

11:15 - 13:00

Morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA) (comp. exercises)

Peter Vogt

13:00 - 14:00

Przerwa obiadowa

14:00 - 15:30

Assessment of fragmentation and connectivity on landscape and habitat level (comp. exercises)

A target group for this workshop are PhD students and Postdocs interested in landscape ecology, nature conservation, environment management and protection with basic skills in GIS and remote sensing (both with theoretical and/or applied background). Maximum number of participants is 32. The workshop will take place in two computer labs.